Comments on: Where Is Family Tree Maker 2013?https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/
Helping you discover your family history. Tue, 22 May 2018 04:47:29 +0000hourly1By: John Phelpshttps://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/#comment-125266
Sun, 08 Sep 2013 02:55:03 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-125266I have FTM 2012 and do not recall receiving any of the updates mentioned.
]]>By: Charles Voelkerhttps://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/#comment-110249
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:38:23 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-110249I feel like I was snookered into my last purchase of FTM. I thought I was getting 2013 version but just a second copy of 2012. This time I got the Deluxe version and there was no indication that it is last yeas’s version. So, now I have two copies of version 21.0.0.723. This means that IF I do order the next version it means another charge. Despite all of the PR explanations about a update that is in the works, it feels like a swindle.
]]>By: John Whitcombhttps://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/#comment-94602
Tue, 28 May 2013 19:46:23 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-94602I am very disappointed that Family Tree Maker 2012 is missing important features found on the Ancestry website, so working in FTM is harder than Ancestry. Specifically, the Family tab of the people view is very limited, showing only what Ancestry refers to as the Pedigree View, entirely doing away with the interactive Family View. Providing a report is poor substitute. I hope this changes very quickly.
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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:10:57 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-82865I have encountered most (or all) of the problems listed above!, especially blogs #52 through #66. When upgrading and transferring data from FTM V10 to FTM V12, I also lost most of the data I had input into the previous version, even after having backed it up. Had to re-invent the ‘wheel’; i.e., re-input a lot of information.

Also, recently I have found that after sharing my tree(s), some of the information I had input on my tree, switched to another member’s tree! I should (and do) know the dates of my grandmother’s birth and death, as I even have a photo of her gravestone. Yet … it disappeared from my tree and transferred to another tree on Ancestry.ca (also got lost on my FTM V12. Thought it was something I had done, apparently not. I ALWAYS sync my trees with Ancestry.

I’ve also found recently that the information and citations I had synced with FTM and Ancestry disappeared from my FTM tree. Yesterday, I had to click on quite a few green leaves to re-import and sync my previous information!

I had purchased Roots Magic just before Ancestry bought them out. I had started to input my information and had imported a GEDCOM; but now, it is a useless bit of software for me. My beef is that I really liked Roots Magic. What to do?

One thing I DO like very much … You can click on ‘what relationship is this person to me’? at the top left of the person’s edit page under the name, and it will give you the relationship of your ancestor to you. Of course, I had a DNA test done late last year, which I recommend highly. I have traced/verified my ancestry to my 21st Great Grandparents!

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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:53:31 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-75732I have found the FTM progrem is corrupted because it closes at times without saving a thing, just closes.
Then a box comes up abput debuging, what is debuging??
Ellanor
]]>By: Bill Fhttps://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/#comment-72565
Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:36:29 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-72565Database Integrity Issue on FTM2012

I have noticed a significant and ongoing problem of corruption of “Source Citations” with the FTM2012. In one family today I have found 8 or 9 offspring with source citations applied to the incorrect person. The source information is undistrubed but it is attached to the wrong person. I have been noticing this problem for the past 6 months whenever review previously entered individuals. My only suspicion is that the database corruption could be associated with compaction of the database. Has anyone reported and/or investigated this serious problem?
I have been a FTM user for over 15 years and I have reported numerous confirmed bugs with FTM over the years. This is very serious issue because if you can’t trust the integrity of data enetered into a database what is the use of entering it? FTM has serious problems which need serious attention at its the most senior management levels. Fix your software please before releasing FTM2013!

]]>By: Kenthttps://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/#comment-67414
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:43:30 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-67414Every time I do a vulnerablility scan of FTM with Kaspersky it picks up on the fact that FTM 2012 is using an old version (10.1r52)of Adobe Flash Player and it is a vulnerability and should be fixed. Don’t know if it is but would appreciate it if FTM would check. Thanks.
]]>By: Nevahttps://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/#comment-63708
Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:50:29 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-63708Has anyone else noticed that you can’t upload a GEDCOM without all of your notes? I called to find out why it wouldn’t work, and while it will privatize all of the living, you have to go into each and every person’s notes to block them from being shared. This should be a must in any new update!
For the record, I may be one of the few, but I’d like to keep my family tree to myself and not have it associated with my ancestry. I like to do my own research rather than copy the copies that have been copied from so many other wrong trees. To me it is making it harder to get accurate information, and it is allowing too many to link up people of similar names and ages who are really different people. I’ve put original information on ancestry that is now so distorted with additional family members, new locations and parents (from all the copying and merging that is going on) that I don’t know if I’ll ever find real cousins again.
]]>By: Jacob Zacharyhttps://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/#comment-63054
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:57:16 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-63054It’s likely been said before, but why can’t you EASILY add pre-existing video and audio files to Member Profiles?! I have documentary style video of family history that I’d love to share on ancestry, as well as audio recordings of my late grandparents talking about who they are, and where they came from. At least the ability to embed html code from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud…that would actually be ideal! I think it put’s ancestry.com at a distinct creative advantage, especially for younger users like myself, not to have those certain flexibilities with media sharing. My 4th cousin, for instance, was Tom Zachary. Tom Zachary was a MLB baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1927, and he threw the pitch that would be launched by Babe Ruth into the right field stands at Yankee Stadium for his record setting 60th home run of the season. I’d love to be able to put that YouTube video highlight on Tom Zachary’s Profile page, as simply as I upload a photo! I’ve been to the message boards with this already, and i’ve heard all the back door ways of achieving this, but it just seems like the most obvious thing to do, to allow users to upload video or audio, or at the very least to embed code. Ancestry does everything else so masterfully, it just doesn’t make much sense that the buck stops there. Thanks!
]]>By: Johnhttps://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/17/where-is-family-tree-maker-2013/#comment-60712
Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:00:22 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=7979#comment-607122012 sale is just a ploy. Yes they are definitely coming out with 2013 but not until March. Trying to sell as many 2012 as they can now, knowing full well nobody will buy 2012 next year.
I’d advise you to wait
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